the last episode of enterprise that came out had 2.5 million viewers. if this number can be held on to then the entire season 5 with 22 episodes? would have 55 million viewers. if each viewer on average gave $1US then the low estimate of $50MilUS would be met. and if each gave just $1.5 then $82.5MilUS would be reached to meet the high estimate.
i for would would throw out $5 to watch the season.
actually, we are not realling having problems with such small scale lithography, the problem is that we are reaching the limitations of silicon transistors. we will likely be able to hit such small sizes within the next 20 years without mand problems. also, i think that this will not be an evolutionary step up from current.65 to future.01, in fact i think it will be a couple large jumps like.65->.5->.35->big advancement at.06->.045->.02->.016->.012 etc...until eventually we can directly manipulate individual atoms and theirfor build complete cross-bar switches or transistor-like circuts in just a 3nmx2nm block. making a chip as powerful as a P4 in just.0022cm square.(80m transistors(or similar) with transistor(or equivilent) measureing 3nmx2nm
agreed, though the US is the most polluting country and has the highest per capita, some nations have VERY LARGE percentages of their populations not participating in the production but still being counted on the whole, china by far exceeds the USA in a 'productive person to polution per capita, BUT when only 25% of your population lives in industrialize areas your per capita amount is cut to 25% of the actual amount per productive citizen. though germany is more heavily reliant on other EU countries for trade than the US is, it is comparable and germany should be commended for its pollution/capita vs the US, but the US is a MUCH MUCH MORE self reliant country and theirfor does not import as many items that are high pollution manufacturing as germany does.
I believe that PART of the Kyoto was to balance world economies and was specifically targeted at the US as the superpower. I am NOT saying the deal is bad, i'm just saying that it targeted things that would specifically hurt the US and did not necessarily focus on the most important environmental issues.
I do believe that a single limit on a pollution per capita should be in place that was universal and did not exclude undeveloped countries. to say that X amount of polution per person is acceptable in a given region would allow for controls on polution and allow cleanup of pollution. industrial businesses would have to meet these limits for their region or close shop.
where i live, we have a number of industries that pollute quite heavily but could pollute substantially less for very little money. maybe 75% pollution reduction for 10-20% of a single years profits at most.
anyway, excuse the rant and have a good holiday/new year/ vacation/ extra hours, or whatever your do during the month of december.
actually, most states allow small vehicles to park "nose out" but not nose in, for instance motorcycles and street legal ATVs. parking nose out allows the vehicle to leave the parking place in as efficient a manner as a car parked the standard way, or even more efficiently.
the program being run can do VNC or RDP. VNC is more 'universal' and is prefered but RDP is available. RDP linux clients usually have little configuration options for some reason while VNC is very good on linux IMHO
i think that babies learn more quickly because they don't know how to learn. that might sound backwards but think about it. they do not have a pre-determined stratagy on how to do a task so they are not limited by that strategy. without the patern to follow, they are not bound by it and learn in a creative manner. they learn by discovering and not by memorization. i think that is very important because memorization is quite boring and will allow the mind to drift off, while discovering is quite exhilerating and will keep the attention focused on the subjext matter.
i also think that babies have this 'talent' naturally because of their complete lack of knowledge. Adults can have this ability too, it shows itself when a person is passionate about the subject matter. Adults wont be as good at it as their brains are trained to learn is a specific way and it is hard to overcome that, but it can be done
i personally feel this 'talent' now where i have not in the past. i had no attention span for spanish in high school, it was presented to me in a completely boring way and theirfor, i despised it. i am now 25, and have found language to be very interesting as i love learning about culture and language influences culture so much. also, one can't really understand a culture by reading about it in a foreign language, one must immerse themselves in it. i am now at a conversational level in danish,swedish,norwegian, and french, plus at a low level in spanish and italian. i have learned what i know of non-engligh languages in just 3 years!
i encourage anyone interested in learning a foreign language to read Barry Farber's book "How to Learn Any Language" and pick up some pimsleur courses and magazines for your target language. and travel if you can!!! denmark is beautiful in the spring and france is amazing in the fall, travel is quite cheap for people in most of europe, us, and canada.
hm, first of all, i don't have "much to learn about networking"
secondly, KIO does allow random file access, so it downloads the file for play by streaming it. that file is not fully downloaded but oly the part currently being played and a small buffer, it MAY be spooled to disk cache but it is not downloaded, THEN played.
how long does it take you to download a 1GB file over a 100speed network? likely 3 minutes+, when i click on a video file on my network i don't want to wait 3 or more minutes to watch it, i want to watch the data stream so that it starts playing immediately! KIO allows this.
btw, i am a network tech by trade, MCSE certified and 6 years of network building and troubleshooting in the corprate environment. i have very little to learn about networking.
in linux, raid5 is a very solid and fast solution. even with a 500Mhz, it is faster than all but the most expensive hardware cards, as most cards have a 133mhz chip or even less.
also, software raids are hardware independent. they can be modified easily while booted and without rebooting. if a hot-swapable drive is used, downtime can be eliminted by a hot-swap and a rebuild of a failed drive.
also, i have been in a discussion about the new cachefs patch in rescent mm kernel patches(or maybe nitro?), allowing you to use a cache in ram with any filesystem, so you could mount your raid array through the cachefs with a given amount of RAM for write cache:) should give a nice performance boost on many systems. this patch is designed to improve transfering files on networks but is show to work equally well for local devices.
AND, linux software raid works on a per-partition basis, so you can mix and match drive sizes without wasting space. 8 250GB drives can mate up with 4 300GB drives, and then the wasted 200GB can be made into another array.
you can easily add IDE cards and increase the size of your array.
you can spread your array over a large number of IDE cards for better redundancy, no single card will criple your array, and IDE cards are much cheaper than hardware raid cards.
LINUX can be booted from a software raid! while is has trouble on some hardware raids!(driver issues)
i run a software raid5 over 12 seagate 120GB drives with no problems. i get great transfer speeds accross the (gigabit)network and it's easy to manage drive spindown because the system sees each individual drive while hardware raid solutions typically only allow the system to see the array as a single device.
most hardware arrays are mainly configured at boot time. to build or repair an array, your system will not be working. if you run a linux fileserver/firewall, your firewall doesn't function on hardware raid rebuild, while it does in software.
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though i would go with a faster processor, you should have very good luck, reliability and performance from an 8 device software raid5. and have a nice 1.7TB array
hold on brentl! i'm very much not discrediting the KDE team for not having this 'feature,' i'm just saying it should be a simple task and EXTREMELY usefull. not for just smb://, but ftp and ssh, for a mysql database, etc. imagine accessing an sql database from konqueror sql://127.0.0.1 and having write access, konqueror could see tables as folders and data in those tables as files, and those tables and files could be writen, add, or deleted at will. AND xmms could access this as/mnt/sql/127.0.0.1/mp3/smashing_pumpkins/bulletwbu tterflywings.mp3 with no problems. for that matter, the files could be wav files and mpg123(321?) could encode them right in the database.
see how having these protocols mount to an appropriate directory for ALL programs to read and write would be awesome?
nope, that DOWNLOADS the file, if i wanted to download the file i would, i want it to run FROM the network. if i have a large video file(1GB?) i don't want to download that 1GB to watch it, i may not have 1GB free to download it too.
Re: Breaking the Network Barrier / KDE: From the Source (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Oct 29, 2004 - 02:28 PM
the real accomplishment will be the ability to have these protocols mounted so that NON-kde apps can access these resources. mplayer cannot use the smb:// i/o so you cannot play video files on a remote samba share using this method.
if kde would be smart enough to allow you to mount the location represented with the open-with command that would be great.
smb:/host/video/clip1.mpeg would translate to/smb/host/video/clip1.mpeg and kde would automagically mount it as such until nothing has accessed for a timeout. then, when navigating @ smb://host/video and you open-with mplayer, kde sends mplayer the local mount path and opens it!
1)Windows biggest problem with stability is the vast number of hardware devices it must support. Mac hardware is closed up tight so the driver base is quite small. 2)Windows biggest security issue again is the large codebase to allow copmatability with numerous hardware and software(BIOS) configurations and that 'bloat' makes the codebase very difficult to maintain. 3)PPC processors(or RISC in general) are very good at emulating CISC chips, a G4 or G5 can match the performance of a similarly clocked P4 in emulation(a 1.8Ghz G4 can emulate a 1.8Ghz P4), though a 1.8Ghz P4 is quite slow by todays standards it is easily fast enough for a compatability layer allowing unmodified x86 win32 code to run in an appears-to-be-native mode(users wouldn't know the difference)
OK, now here are the issues. 1)Windows has a lot of bloat that would carry over to PPC simply because removing the bloat isn't cost-effective. 2)MacOSX is a strong OS and their is little reason to run Windows on a machine that runs OSX well. 3)MacOSX can run virtualPC quite well, and have a great WindowsXP desktop on the mac already, that performs very nicely.
so, where are we to find an abundant source of antimatter? do we make it? because that would seem to be prohibitively expensive.
if you were to produce a 20Kg(10Kg matter/10Kg anti-matter), how far would the gamma rays travel? this is the equivelent of a 400~MegaTon nuke. would their be a need for such a powerful bomb? in fact, is their a need for a weapon more powerful than the standard nuke?
as i see it, the nuke is only around as a massive deterent, even if it was not radioactive, their is not point in completely destroying land, it would be simply more efficient to have a non-physically destructive gamma bomb and just kill all the people. with a large gamma bomb you would be able to use the land that was nuked almost immediately. i'm not sure how you would create a gamma bomb without the corresponding BOOM! and falling of buildings though.
i feel that current deterent weapons like the nuke are sufficient, and that a antimatter bomb would have not practical use on our planet.
BUT, suppose we are not alone in the universe. What if some alien race shows up with techlogy on par with StarTrek:TNG, we KNOW that nukes don't do much to a galaxy class starships shields, but a 100Kg(2 Gigaton) antimatter missle just might:)
an EM pulse requires certain circumstances that a centrifugail battery would not provide, such as electromagnetic energy storage, the device would be storing energy as kenetic enery and any accident would certainly not provide ANY CHANGE of EM Pulse.
physical damage actualy could be an issue but with proper planning and storage locations such as out of direct high populated or high surface value properties and placed in an earth-berm bunker a failure in the magnetic suspention would result in the friction of the flywheel to be absorbed by the earth. this would create quite a bit of heat and some seizmic disturbance but this could be easily calculated by an estimate of the mass of surrounding earth and the amount of energy to be absorbed. the 'energy' radius of an accident could be measured in such a way that too much energy would not be stored in a particular peice of earth.
this is a reasonably safe meathod of storage, with the only issue being efficiency.
also read rescent article on wind generation and the price dropping to 1cent/kilowatt which would be a very nice way to generate power AND the highly efficient storage method of "MSCFB" plus the added benefit below..
with methods of storage being 'distributable' and modular, power would not need to be shiped as far on such a regular basis. also, with the flywheel having seperate motor and generator electronics, input and output voltages and amps would not have to be converted as the flywheel would do the work.
the input voltage could be quite high, with a very low amperage. the point of this would be to allow that energy to be transmitted more efficiently accross power lines as highvolts/lowamps travel with less resistance than lowvolts/highamps. output voltages would then be ~220ish directly to local power grids. with high line voltages and less line resistance AND less need for large capacitor banks along power lines because of the trade of amps for volts. this is done on some level currently with most power lines being about 600volts(this is from memory, but may be wrong) and then pole mounted transformers bring power down to 110-220 for household use.
large flywheels on friction free magnetic bearings in a vacuum, center bound 'accelerator' drive and edge mounted 'generator' drive to input and retrieve energy.
in any single app, these chips WILL NOT perform any better than any other processor.
the performance comes when processing VERY SMALL operatings such as web serving and file serving where processor latencies cause a performance hit when threads must be qued up and then wait for their turn. smaller pipelines running in parallel will perform much much faster because threads avoid the wait in a processor que. each thread may actually be executed SLOWER but will be completed first because of the paralism.
i can forsee this chip competing very well agains similarly clocked/or priced dual core opterons, in fact they may perform much better in server related operations.
i see no details on memory interconnects and bandwidth, location of memorycontroller, type of ram, or effective FSB.
what if you took execution cache to a new level. you have a basic processor emulator that can emulate the entire target processor, even if it does it very slowly. then, you have a cache monitor that watches every execution and writes the results to a file. slowly, as all executions are done, the cache gets full and you no longer actualy execute the code, but pull the previous execution out of cache. now, you also take this cache data and compile it and append it onto the original program(after making a backup) so that upon next execution, that cache data is used again allowing the machine to run fast:)
Democratic Alies are 'allowed' to have nukes. aliances allow this so that no member of the aliance group has an advantage based on the alliance. such as the US has nukes, so if you are a US ally you are allowed to have nukes also:) this isn't the 'law' but the 'law' seems to function this way.
ENEMIES are not allowed to have nukes if anything can be done about it. NK having nukes is bad but what is the US going to do about it??
if the US invades or bombs NK, then china MAY start choosing sides and those crazy chineese are unpredictable. china might not like the idea of the US controlling(occupying) a country so close to them.
also, as mentioned before, seoul would definitely be leveled first thing, even if the US stayed away from it, consider it a hostage.....
a 2 kilometer explosion is quite large, and COULD be made with conventional weapons but it would take a hell of a lot. a MOAB makes a cloud about half that size at most depending on surface conditions. Likely it was a 10-15kiloton nuke, or about that size.
also, the nuke isn't the only matter, does NK have a delivery method? do they have missles or ICBMs capable of threatening the US? prob not, but japan, taiwan, SK, china and whole lotta asia is prob within range. not good.
it sick to say, but the best hope is that NK pisses off china and china FREAKS!, those 1mil NK soliers aren't much of a match against china with 10 times that in active service!
unless, BoP systems can obliterate cable or DSL in price-to-performance, why even do it? sure it's a proof of concept and that the technology works, but is it worth it?
from what i have read, BoP adds a fair amount of 'white noise' that causes ham radioers and 802.11x users a bit of trouble. These users must boost their signal to compensate and that lowers speed or quality of signal or completely destroys it if the signal were fairly weak in the first place.
I can see how the system would be usefull for those outside cable and DSL grids like rural areas of the US's northwest(montana, wyoming, dakotas) where the distance is too great for the current standards BUT does BoP extend into these areas?
honestly, i'm going to wait until e17 is released. EVERY library and idea i have seen for this DE are quite promissing, and if rasterman and his cohorts can put it together right, it will give linux what it needs to be a top-of-the-line desktop OS.
file A exsist here/data/fileA.txt you move file A to/otherplace/
filesystem copies fileA.txt to/otherplace/, verifies that the copy has completed, and THEN deletes original.
you see, when it verifies the filesystem, it checks to make sure that the data is their. it doesn't just trust that the harddrive has written it to disk, it waits til the write command has returned a positive.
also, you don't understand a hard drives cach correctly either. unless data is being read at the exact moment of the write, ZERO data will be cached for later writes, the cache is primarily for READING data as many reads are not alligned near each other on the dist, so the cache reads the entire block into cache before it seeks to a new sector so that the next read from the first track is in cache. hard drive caches are for reads primarily and writes only occasionally. also, some OS and filesystems will not do a simultanious write and read to avoid such situations(this is legacy behavior, from when drives barely had any cache).
try this, run bochs with a small linux distro, no gui just bash. install samba to have access to ALL linux compatible filesystems and export you/mnt folder via samba.
this would also allow you to 'map a network drive' and give your samba share a drive letter.
yeah, i have been with anandtech since the dawn of time, but a review like this really makes me question the site. do intel pay them off or something? what a crock.
and yeah, i was kinda cool that the a64 did beat the xeon in some benchmarks...
id like to get my hands on an opty150 and a xeon3.6/64 and do my own benchmarks. i'd like to see this in a ut2004_64 under linux.
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the last episode of enterprise that came out had 2.5 million viewers. if this number can be held on to then the entire season 5 with 22 episodes? would have 55 million viewers. if each viewer on average gave $1US then the low estimate of $50MilUS would be met. and if each gave just $1.5 then $82.5MilUS would be reached to meet the high estimate.
i for would would throw out $5 to watch the season.
actually, we are not realling having problems with such small scale lithography, the problem is that we are reaching the limitations of silicon transistors. we will likely be able to hit such small sizes within the next 20 years without mand problems. also, i think that this will not be an evolutionary step up from current .65 to future .01, in fact i think it will be a couple large jumps like .65->.5->.35->big advancement at .06->.045->.02->.016->.012 etc...until eventually we can directly manipulate individual atoms and theirfor build complete cross-bar switches or transistor-like circuts in just a 3nmx2nm block. making a chip as powerful as a P4 in just .0022cm square.(80m transistors(or similar) with transistor(or equivilent) measureing 3nmx2nm
agreed,
though the US is the most polluting country and has the highest per capita, some nations have VERY LARGE percentages of their populations not participating in the production but still being counted on the whole, china by far exceeds the USA in a 'productive person to polution per capita, BUT when only 25% of your population lives in industrialize areas your per capita amount is cut to 25% of the actual amount per productive citizen. though germany is more heavily reliant on other EU countries for trade than the US is, it is comparable and germany should be commended for its pollution/capita vs the US, but the US is a MUCH MUCH MORE self reliant country and theirfor does not import as many items that are high pollution manufacturing as germany does.
I believe that PART of the Kyoto was to balance world economies and was specifically targeted at the US as the superpower. I am NOT saying the deal is bad, i'm just saying that it targeted things that would specifically hurt the US and did not necessarily focus on the most important environmental issues.
I do believe that a single limit on a pollution per capita should be in place that was universal and did not exclude undeveloped countries. to say that X amount of polution per person is acceptable in a given region would allow for controls on polution and allow cleanup of pollution. industrial businesses would have to meet these limits for their region or close shop.
where i live, we have a number of industries that pollute quite heavily but could pollute substantially less for very little money. maybe 75% pollution reduction for 10-20% of a single years profits at most.
anyway, excuse the rant and have a good holiday/new year/ vacation/ extra hours, or whatever your do during the month of december.
actually, most states allow small vehicles to park "nose out" but not nose in, for instance motorcycles and street legal ATVs. parking nose out allows the vehicle to leave the parking place in as efficient a manner as a car parked the standard way, or even more efficiently.
the program being run can do VNC or RDP. VNC is more 'universal' and is prefered but RDP is available. RDP linux clients usually have little configuration options for some reason while VNC is very good on linux IMHO
this is the same protocal, and can connect to windowsXP hosts. this is RDP not VNC or remote X
i think that babies learn more quickly because they don't know how to learn. that might sound backwards but think about it. they do not have a pre-determined stratagy on how to do a task so they are not limited by that strategy. without the patern to follow, they are not bound by it and learn in a creative manner. they learn by discovering and not by memorization. i think that is very important because memorization is quite boring and will allow the mind to drift off, while discovering is quite exhilerating and will keep the attention focused on the subjext matter.
i also think that babies have this 'talent' naturally because of their complete lack of knowledge. Adults can have this ability too, it shows itself when a person is passionate about the subject matter. Adults wont be as good at it as their brains are trained to learn is a specific way and it is hard to overcome that, but it can be done
i personally feel this 'talent' now where i have not in the past. i had no attention span for spanish in high school, it was presented to me in a completely boring way and theirfor, i despised it. i am now 25, and have found language to be very interesting as i love learning about culture and language influences culture so much. also, one can't really understand a culture by reading about it in a foreign language, one must immerse themselves in it. i am now at a conversational level in danish,swedish,norwegian, and french, plus at a low level in spanish and italian. i have learned what i know of non-engligh languages in just 3 years!
i encourage anyone interested in learning a foreign language to read Barry Farber's book "How to Learn Any Language" and pick up some pimsleur courses and magazines for your target language. and travel if you can!!! denmark is beautiful in the spring and france is amazing in the fall, travel is quite cheap for people in most of europe, us, and canada.
hm,
first of all, i don't have "much to learn about networking"
secondly, KIO does allow random file access, so it downloads the file for play by streaming it. that file is not fully downloaded but oly the part currently being played and a small buffer, it MAY be spooled to disk cache but it is not downloaded, THEN played.
how long does it take you to download a 1GB file over a 100speed network? likely 3 minutes+, when i click on a video file on my network i don't want to wait 3 or more minutes to watch it, i want to watch the data stream so that it starts playing immediately! KIO allows this.
btw, i am a network tech by trade, MCSE certified and 6 years of network building and troubleshooting in the corprate environment. i have very little to learn about networking.
in linux, raid5 is a very solid and fast solution. even with a 500Mhz, it is faster than all but the most expensive hardware cards, as most cards have a 133mhz chip or even less.
:) should give a nice performance boost on many systems. this patch is designed to improve transfering files on networks but is show to work equally well for local devices.
also, software raids are hardware independent. they can be modified easily while booted and without rebooting. if a hot-swapable drive is used, downtime can be eliminted by a hot-swap and a rebuild of a failed drive.
also, i have been in a discussion about the new cachefs patch in rescent mm kernel patches(or maybe nitro?), allowing you to use a cache in ram with any filesystem, so you could mount your raid array through the cachefs with a given amount of RAM for write cache
AND, linux software raid works on a per-partition basis, so you can mix and match drive sizes without wasting space. 8 250GB drives can mate up with 4 300GB drives, and then the wasted 200GB can be made into another array.
you can easily add IDE cards and increase the size of your array.
you can spread your array over a large number of IDE cards for better redundancy, no single card will criple your array, and IDE cards are much cheaper than hardware raid cards.
LINUX can be booted from a software raid! while is has trouble on some hardware raids!(driver issues)
i run a software raid5 over 12 seagate 120GB drives with no problems. i get great transfer speeds accross the (gigabit)network and it's easy to manage drive spindown because the system sees each individual drive while hardware raid solutions typically only allow the system to see the array as a single device.
most hardware arrays are mainly configured at boot time. to build or repair an array, your system will not be working. if you run a linux fileserver/firewall, your firewall doesn't function on hardware raid rebuild, while it does in software.
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though i would go with a faster processor, you should have very good luck, reliability and performance from an 8 device software raid5. and have a nice 1.7TB array
hold on brentl! i'm very much not discrediting the KDE team for not having this 'feature,' i'm just saying it should be a simple task and EXTREMELY usefull. not for just smb://, but ftp and ssh, for a mysql database, etc. imagine accessing an sql database from konqueror sql://127.0.0.1 and having write access, konqueror could see tables as folders and data in those tables as files, and those tables and files could be writen, add, or deleted at will. AND xmms could access this as /mnt/sql/127.0.0.1/mp3/smashing_pumpkins/bulletwbu tterflywings.mp3 with no problems. for that matter, the files could be wav files and mpg123(321?) could encode them right in the database.
see how having these protocols mount to an appropriate directory for ALL programs to read and write would be awesome?
nope, that DOWNLOADS the file, if i wanted to download the file i would, i want it to run FROM the network. if i have a large video file(1GB?) i don't want to download that 1GB to watch it, i may not have 1GB free to download it too.
Re: Breaking the Network Barrier / KDE: From the Source (Score: 0)
/smb/host/video/clip1.mpeg and kde would automagically mount it as such until nothing has accessed for a timeout. then, when navigating @ smb://host/video and you open-with mplayer, kde sends mplayer the local mount path and opens it!
by Anonymous on Oct 29, 2004 - 02:28 PM
the real accomplishment will be the ability to have these protocols mounted so that NON-kde apps can access these resources. mplayer cannot use the smb:// i/o so you cannot play video files on a remote samba share using this method.
if kde would be smart enough to allow you to mount the location represented with the open-with command that would be great.
smb:/host/video/clip1.mpeg would translate to
THAT would be cool.
interesting ONLY because of the following points.
1)Windows biggest problem with stability is the vast number of hardware devices it must support. Mac hardware is closed up tight so the driver base is quite small.
2)Windows biggest security issue again is the large codebase to allow copmatability with numerous hardware and software(BIOS) configurations and that 'bloat' makes the codebase very difficult to maintain.
3)PPC processors(or RISC in general) are very good at emulating CISC chips, a G4 or G5 can match the performance of a similarly clocked P4 in emulation(a 1.8Ghz G4 can emulate a 1.8Ghz P4), though a 1.8Ghz P4 is quite slow by todays standards it is easily fast enough for a compatability layer allowing unmodified x86 win32 code to run in an appears-to-be-native mode(users wouldn't know the difference)
OK, now here are the issues.
1)Windows has a lot of bloat that would carry over to PPC simply because removing the bloat isn't cost-effective.
2)MacOSX is a strong OS and their is little reason to run Windows on a machine that runs OSX well.
3)MacOSX can run virtualPC quite well, and have a great WindowsXP desktop on the mac already, that performs very nicely.
so, where are we to find an abundant source of antimatter? do we make it? because that would seem to be prohibitively expensive.
:)
if you were to produce a 20Kg(10Kg matter/10Kg anti-matter), how far would the gamma rays travel? this is the equivelent of a 400~MegaTon nuke. would their be a need for such a powerful bomb? in fact, is their a need for a weapon more powerful than the standard nuke?
as i see it, the nuke is only around as a massive deterent, even if it was not radioactive, their is not point in completely destroying land, it would be simply more efficient to have a non-physically destructive gamma bomb and just kill all the people. with a large gamma bomb you would be able to use the land that was nuked almost immediately. i'm not sure how you would create a gamma bomb without the corresponding BOOM! and falling of buildings though.
i feel that current deterent weapons like the nuke are sufficient, and that a antimatter bomb would have not practical use on our planet.
BUT, suppose we are not alone in the universe. What if some alien race shows up with techlogy on par with StarTrek:TNG, we KNOW that nukes don't do much to a galaxy class starships shields, but a 100Kg(2 Gigaton) antimatter missle just might
an EM pulse requires certain circumstances that a centrifugail battery would not provide, such as electromagnetic energy storage, the device would be storing energy as kenetic enery and any accident would certainly not provide ANY CHANGE of EM Pulse.
physical damage actualy could be an issue but with proper planning and storage locations such as out of direct high populated or high surface value properties and placed in an earth-berm bunker a failure in the magnetic suspention would result in the friction of the flywheel to be absorbed by the earth. this would create quite a bit of heat and some seizmic disturbance but this could be easily calculated by an estimate of the mass of surrounding earth and the amount of energy to be absorbed. the 'energy' radius of an accident could be measured in such a way that too much energy would not be stored in a particular peice of earth.
this is a reasonably safe meathod of storage, with the only issue being efficiency.
also read rescent article on wind generation and the price dropping to 1cent/kilowatt which would be a very nice way to generate power AND the highly efficient storage method of "MSCFB" plus the added benefit below..
with methods of storage being 'distributable' and modular, power would not need to be shiped as far on such a regular basis. also, with the flywheel having seperate motor and generator electronics, input and output voltages and amps would not have to be converted as the flywheel would do the work.
the input voltage could be quite high, with a very low amperage. the point of this would be to allow that energy to be transmitted more efficiently accross power lines as highvolts/lowamps travel with less resistance than lowvolts/highamps.
output voltages would then be ~220ish directly to local power grids. with high line voltages and less line resistance AND less need for large capacitor banks along power lines because of the trade of amps for volts. this is done on some level currently with most power lines being about 600volts(this is from memory, but may be wrong) and then pole mounted transformers bring power down to 110-220 for household use.
megnetically suspended centrifugial flywheel battery,
large flywheels on friction free magnetic bearings in a vacuum, center bound 'accelerator' drive and edge mounted 'generator' drive to input and retrieve energy.
thoughts??
in any single app, these chips WILL NOT perform any better than any other processor.
the performance comes when processing VERY SMALL operatings such as web serving and file serving where processor latencies cause a performance hit when threads must be qued up and then wait for their turn. smaller pipelines running in parallel will perform much much faster because threads avoid the wait in a processor que. each thread may actually be executed SLOWER but will be completed first because of the paralism.
i can forsee this chip competing very well agains similarly clocked/or priced dual core opterons, in fact they may perform much better in server related operations.
i see no details on memory interconnects and bandwidth, location of memorycontroller, type of ram, or effective FSB.
yap yap yap, try it b4 you critisize.
l m-project.org/yos-i686-2.1.0-4.iso.torrent
so many people here are saying this is NOT that great but have not tried it. so here
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/download/http/www.t
a nice torrent for you to play with
what if you took execution cache to a new level. you have a basic processor emulator that can emulate the entire target processor, even if it does it very slowly. then, you have a cache monitor that watches every execution and writes the results to a file. slowly, as all executions are done, the cache gets full and you no longer actualy execute the code, but pull the previous execution out of cache. now, you also take this cache data and compile it and append it onto the original program(after making a backup) so that upon next execution, that cache data is used again allowing the machine to run fast :)
Democratic Alies are 'allowed' to have nukes. aliances allow this so that no member of the aliance group has an advantage based on the alliance. such as the US has nukes, so if you are a US ally you are allowed to have nukes also :) this isn't the 'law' but the 'law' seems to function this way.
ENEMIES are not allowed to have nukes if anything can be done about it. NK having nukes is bad but what is the US going to do about it??
if the US invades or bombs NK, then china MAY start choosing sides and those crazy chineese are unpredictable. china might not like the idea of the US controlling(occupying) a country so close to them.
also, as mentioned before, seoul would definitely be leveled first thing, even if the US stayed away from it, consider it a hostage.....
a 2 kilometer explosion is quite large, and COULD be made with conventional weapons but it would take a hell of a lot. a MOAB makes a cloud about half that size at most depending on surface conditions. Likely it was a 10-15kiloton nuke, or about that size.
also, the nuke isn't the only matter, does NK have a delivery method? do they have missles or ICBMs capable of threatening the US? prob not, but japan, taiwan, SK, china and whole lotta asia is prob within range. not good.
it sick to say, but the best hope is that NK pisses off china and china FREAKS!, those 1mil NK soliers aren't much of a match against china with 10 times that in active service!
unless, BoP systems can obliterate cable or DSL in price-to-performance, why even do it? sure it's a proof of concept and that the technology works, but is it worth it?
from what i have read, BoP adds a fair amount of 'white noise' that causes ham radioers and 802.11x users a bit of trouble. These users must boost their signal to compensate and that lowers speed or quality of signal or completely destroys it if the signal were fairly weak in the first place.
I can see how the system would be usefull for those outside cable and DSL grids like rural areas of the US's northwest(montana, wyoming, dakotas) where the distance is too great for the current standards BUT does BoP extend into these areas?
honestly, i'm going to wait until e17 is released. EVERY library and idea i have seen for this DE are quite promissing, and if rasterman and his cohorts can put it together right, it will give linux what it needs to be a top-of-the-line desktop OS.
you don't understand atomic writes.
/data/fileA.txt /otherplace/
/otherplace/, verifies that the copy has completed, and THEN deletes original.
file A exsist here
you move file A to
filesystem copies fileA.txt to
you see, when it verifies the filesystem, it checks to make sure that the data is their. it doesn't just trust that the harddrive has written it to disk, it waits til the write command has returned a positive.
also, you don't understand a hard drives cach correctly either. unless data is being read at the exact moment of the write, ZERO data will be cached for later writes, the cache is primarily for READING data as many reads are not alligned near each other on the dist, so the cache reads the entire block into cache before it seeks to a new sector so that the next read from the first track is in cache. hard drive caches are for reads primarily and writes only occasionally. also, some OS and filesystems will not do a simultanious write and read to avoid such situations(this is legacy behavior, from when drives barely had any cache).
try this, run bochs with a small linux distro, no gui just bash. install samba to have access to ALL linux compatible filesystems and export you /mnt folder via samba.
this would also allow you to 'map a network drive' and give your samba share a drive letter.
yeah, i have been with anandtech since the dawn of time, but a review like this really makes me question the site. do intel pay them off or something? what a crock.
and yeah, i was kinda cool that the a64 did beat the xeon in some benchmarks...
id like to get my hands on an opty150 and a xeon3.6/64 and do my own benchmarks. i'd like to see this in a ut2004_64 under linux.